{"id":14964,"date":"2016-04-26T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/individual-a-sues-hastert-for-money-over-unpaid-hush-money\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:00:06","slug":"individual-a-sues-hastert-for-money-over-unpaid-hush-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/individual-a-sues-hastert-for-money-over-unpaid-hush-money\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Individual A&#8217; sues Hastert for money over unpaid hush money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A man who alleges he was sexually abused by former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert decades ago and was later promised $3.5 million to stay quiet has filed a federal lawsuit saying he\u2019s only been paid about half the money.<\/p>\n<p>The person known as \u201cIndividual A\u201d in court documents filed the lawsuit Monday in Yorkville, the northern Illinois city where Hastert allegedly abused several boys while he was a wrestling coach at Yorkville High School.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, \u201cIndividual A\u201d says he\u2019s owed $1.8 million under the agreement. He says he\u2019s suffered panic attacks that led to bouts of depression, hospitalization and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Hastert is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Chicago on charges of breaking federal banking rules in a scheme to cover up sexual abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A man who alleges he was sexually abused by former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert decades ago and was later promised $3.5 million to stay quiet has filed a federal lawsuit saying he\u2019s only been paid about half the money. The person known as \u201cIndividual A\u201d in court documents filed the lawsuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}